The two plots earmarked for student housing have been sold to a company that will develop 580 student housing rooms.No news on the start date or whether the plans we've seen will be what's actually developed.

Phase 2

Phase 2 involves the following (at least according to JR Smart's brochure :

It won't look like those renders if No1 is anything to go by. I can guarentee those windows will instead look like a boy racers blacked out windows. Also the building materials will look a lot cheaper and prob a different colour to.

The good news is they are looking to have it completed by December next year, so hopefully the pace of construction will be a bit quicker than number 1 was ! There's nothing in the article about any potential tenants looking at it so for now it does look purely speculative.

One interesting bit of text unrelated to this development is this :

"The Welsh Government is also looking to build a 90,000 sq ft office scheme at land it acquired at nearby Callaghan Square. A number of potential occupiers have been identified for the scheme. Although discussions are at an early stages, it could potentially house professional advisory firm Deloitte.

It currently has a workforce of around 400, and growing in the city, but could over the next few years see this rise to around 1,000."

I knew Deloitte were expanding but I can't remember the expansion including 600 new jobs.

That explains why they are still looking at building even though JR Smart and Rightacres both have buildings going up, and in JR Smart's case a second building going in for planning permission in the autumn.

Drove down Tyndall street today and I'm convinced I saw diggers etc on the land that is earmarked for phase 2. It was probably just being used for the construction for number 2, anyone walked near the site lately?

I was also thinking that we haven't heard anything else on the student housing for a while, other than that land has been sold. Any news?